You told Cursor to deploy your landing page. It wrote the files locally. Then you spent forty minutes figuring out where to host them, how to point DNS, and why certbot hates your life. The AI did the fun part. You got stuck on the boring part.
SSHGrid flips that order. Your AI agent gets a real Linux VPS — not a sandbox, not a fake terminal in a browser tab that vanishes when you close the session. You message it like a teammate. It runs bash on your box, writes files under your home directory, reloads Apache, and serves the result on you.sshgrid.com with SSL. You can SSH in afterward and touch everything it built.
What you actually get
Each account is a dedicated Linux user on shared infrastructure: Apache 2.4 with mpm_itk (your UID), PHP 8.3, Python 3.12, SQLite, certbot for Let's Encrypt. Real SSH and SFTP credentials. A subdomain included. Bring your own domain — point an A record, tell the agent, vhost and cert follow.
The chat UI isn't the whole product. Five tabs sit beside every conversation:
Files — live tree of ~/public_html/, ~/data/, and whatever else the agent wrote. Click to read or edit.
Context — pinned notes the agent reads on every message. Your stack, brand voice, conventions. Stop re-explaining "we use PHP and SQLite" in every thread.
Journal — daily plain-English log of what shipped. Skim last week without scrolling chat history.
Scheduler — cron jobs the agent set up, translated to human sentences. Nightly backups, Stripe polling, weekly reports — visible without reading crontab syntax.
Settings — SSH/SFTP connect strings, password auth, public keys. The agent is convenient; the box is still yours.
How a dispatch works
You send one message — plain English or shell if you prefer. That's one dispatch. The agent might unzip a site, fix a 500, scaffold a contact form, or install a backup cron job. All of that counts as a single dispatch, no matter how many commands run behind the scenes.
Commands stream back live via SSE. You see the actual transcript: unzip, apachectl -t, curl -sI returning HTTP/2 200. No proprietary runtime hiding what happened. When something breaks, you tail your real error log in the same chat — not a vendor's "observability layer."
Typical asks: deploy a zip from ~/uploads/, wire a custom domain, debug a production 500, schedule nightly DB backups, scaffold a tiny CRM with magic-link login. Side projects, agency micro-sites, weekend experiments — the stuff where spinning up Coolify feels like overkill but shared cPanel feels like 2009.
SSHGrid vs traditional hosting
We're a Canadian host — we run Docker stacks, GitLab, and production VPS workloads for clients who want root access and data in-country. SSHGrid solves a different problem.
Shared cPanel gives you a control panel and a ticket queue. Nobody there debugs your 500 from chat.
Raw cloud VPS gives you a blank Ubuntu box and a billing alert. You configure everything yourself — or pay us to manage it.
SSHGrid gives you an AI teammate on a pre-configured web stack. Up in under a minute, SSL on subdomains by default, pay per dispatch instead of babysitting infra you only touch on Sundays.
Production WordPress at scale, multi-container apps, compliance-heavy Canadian data residency — that's Swift Host territory. Prototype tonight, ship a client landing page by lunch, let an agent handle certs and cron while you sleep — that's SSHGrid.
Pricing (straight numbers)
Free — $0, 10 dispatches, one subdomain, SSH/SFTP, 100 MB storage. No card to start. Your site keeps working after you hit the limit; you just can't message the agent until you upgrade.
Standard — $19.99 USD/month, 100 dispatches, 1 GB RAM, 5 GB storage, one custom domain, email support.
Studio — custom volume, unlimited domains, dedicated capacity, SLA. For agencies running many client micro-sites through one workflow.
Cancel and your files stay 30 days. Resubscribe and pick up where you left off.
Who it's for
Good fit: solo founders shipping side projects, devs who'd rather describe a deploy than click through a panel, small agencies onboarding client sites with one sentence to an agent, anyone who wants AI to run real commands on real Linux without owning the whole stack.
Maybe not: you need 32 GB RAM and Kubernetes — get a proper VPS. You want full Canadian data residency documentation for a regulated client — talk to us about hosted infrastructure in Canada instead. You don't trust an agent touching production — fair; SSH in and audit every file, or host elsewhere.
Try it
Free account at sshgrid.com — ten dispatches, no credit card. Build something tonight. If it grows into something that needs dedicated Canadian metal, we're here for that too.
